Word: roald
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DIVORCED. Patricia Neal, 57, Oscar-winning actress (Hud, 1963), and Roald Dahl, 66, British author of macabre short stories (Switch Bitch) and wry children's tales (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory); after 30 years of marriage, five children; in London. Dahl's affair with one of his wife's friends devastated a marriage that had survived much tragedy: a traffic accident that caused brain damage to their son, the death of a seven-year-old daughter from measles, and three nearly fatal strokes that partly paralyzed Neal during her fifth pregnancy...
...sure, Fiennes and Burton had benefited from the largesse of scores of corporations and from technological support that did not exist when Roald Amundsen, a Norwegian explorer, became the first man to travel to the South Pole in 1911. In addition to the Benjamin Bowring, the Transglobe Expedition had at its disposal everything from Land Rovers to a Boston Whaler, from short-wave radios to a satellite navigation system. But it did not take long for the team to discover the limits of these aids. As Fiennes told TIME last week, "If you set out and plan your journey into...
...Auburn St. Nicolaas Bloembergen, the Harvard laser expert who shared the physics prize, was on hand; so was David Hubel, the Medical School professor who shared the prize in medicine and physiology. From New Haven came James Tobin, the laureate in economics; and from Ithaca, Cornell professor Roald Hoffmann, who shared the chemistry prize, sent regrets. Finally, Paul Samuelson, the 1970 Nobel laureate in economics, dropped by from MIT for the festivities...
...laureate in physics.* The other half of the award will be shared equally by two Americans, Nicolaas Bloembergen, 61, a Dutch-born Harvard professor, and Arthur Schawlow, 60, of Stanford. The prize in chemistry will go to Kenichi Fukui, 63, of Japan's Kyoto University, and Roald Hoffmann, 44, of Cornell University...
...Roald Reitan, 19, and his friend Venus Dergen, 20, of Tacoma, Wash., had been camping next to a good fishing hole in the Toutle River, about 23 miles downstream from Spirit Lake. They were awakened by a rumbling noise from the river, which was covered by felled trees. The pair ran to Reitan's car, but water from the rising river poured over the road, preventing them from driving away. Then a tide of mud crashed through the forest toward the car. Reitan and Dergen climbed to the roof of the car. That got them above...